Creating the United States

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In May 1776, Thomas Jefferson, a Virginia delegate to the Continental Congress, wrote at least three drafts of a Virginia constitution. Jefferson’s litany of British governmental abuses in his drafts of the Virginia constitution became his “chain of abuses” in the Declaration of Independence.
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